I'm using Windows/TeXworks/MiKTeX, and I would like to have one style file I can use anywhere in any document in my top-level folder. If I want to add a new command or renew an old one, I'd like that ...

I am looking for a grammar-checking tool, i.e., something that checks for mistakes such as "two dog" or "a books". It has to work on Linux (Ubuntu). Also, since that I use macros to generate some of ...

I use MiKTeX on Windows and quite satisfied with it. Recently I started switching all my tasks toward open-source alternatives, and in the course I would love to use Linux. But the problem is in Linux ...

Is it worth the effort to manually install TeX Live 2011 on Ubuntu?
Has so much changed since 2009?
I am a new Ubuntu user coming from windows and have very limited
knowledge of Linux environment. I ...

I have searched through posts like "embedded video in PDF", it seems that this feature is only available in Adobe Acrobat.
So I just thought the alternative solution: open a video file (using system ...

I want to setup latex environment on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit Machine. As I am making a backup system for Windows 7 machine.
I have installed the latest version of Texmaker 3.3.4.
Now I want to know which ...

I need the IEEEtran document class, and LyX asked for IEEEtran.cls. I have found it googling, now how do I install it?
I've found a similar questions but that's for LyX on Mac; but I'm on Ubuntu (not ...

Following answers on this website (like: How to use TeX Live on Fedora 17? and Manually installed TexLive on Fedora 16 )
I installed texlive manually on fedora and it works flawlessly.
The problem I ...

I'm a LyX user. Can I move all (or most) of the TeX related files/folders to another (Linux) partition (/data) and so reuse that partition for LyX-TeX after OS re-install, as well as share that TeX ...

I ran into a very strange problem recently: I'm administrating Mandriva Linux in a networked setup where users authenticate via NIS. We noticed that pdflatex simply stalls with no error messages and ...

If I try to print a PDF produced with pdflatex from within the Evince document viewer on Debian Wheezy, the print output is garbled. This is also true if I "print to file": it looks as shown below.
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This is probably a well known bug or error, but I don't really know how to search for it. I have a PDF, which I have created on my computer running os X (10.6) in texshop. There are various figures ...

I have a .tex file which works fine under Windows/MikTeX, but fails to produce a PDF in Linux Mint 17/TeXLive 2013.
I looked through various similar questions posted on this site, but none seemed to ...

I just installed Linux Mint 17.1 (Cinnamon). I am using the embedded PDF-Viewer in Texmaker. Now when I make a quick build and click the arrow left of pdf-viewer, the old PDF without the changes stays ...